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Pre-modern The study of world history, as distinct from national history, has existed in many world cultures. However, early forms of world history were not truly global and were limited to only the regions known by the historian. In Ancient China, Chinese world history, that of China and the surrounding
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See moreWorld history or global history as a field of historical study examines history from a global perspective. It emerged centuries ago; leading practitioners have included Voltaire (1694–1778), Hegel (1770–1831), Karl Marx (1818–1883)
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See moreJerry H. Bentley has observed that 'the term world history has never been a clear signifier with a stable referent', and that usage of the term
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As early as 1884, the American Historical Association advocated the study of the past on a world scale. T. Walter Wallbank and Alastair M. Taylor co-authored Civilization Past & Present, the first world-history textbook published...
See moreIn recent years, the relationship between African and world history has shifted rapidly from one of antipathy to one of engagement and
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See more• Peter Kropotkin (1842–1921), The State: Its Historic Role (London, 1896)
• Friedrich Engels (1820–1895), The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State...
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• Bayly, Christopher Alan. The birth of the modern world, 1780-1914: global connections and comparisons (Blackwell, 2004)...
See moreWikipedia text under CC-BY-SA licenseWas this helpful?Thanks! Give more feedback Human history (or world history) is the narrative of humanity's past. It is understood through archaeology, anthropology, genetics, linguistics, and (since the advent of writing) primary and secondary source documents.
Humanity's written history was preceded by its prehistory, beginning with the Palaeolithic ("Old Stone Age") era. This was followed by the Neolithic("New Sto…Wikipedia · Text under CC-BY-SA license